A pensioner who returned from the Philippines to face justice in Britain has appeared in court charged with a string of sex offences involving boys.
Douglas Slade, 74, flew into Heathrow Airport from the Philippines late on Wednesday evening and was immediately arrested.
He was seen exiting the arrivals hall at Terminal 4 in a wheelchair, flanked by six officials who escorted him to a waiting police van.
One source said that Slade, who ran a firm selling pork pies in the Philippines, had sold his house in Angeles City for about £97,000 before returning to Britain.
On Friday morning, he appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court charged with eight offences.
The alleged offences, against three boys aged between 11 and 15, were said to have taken place in the Bristol area in the 1960s and 1970s.
